slatey

It's a roughish crossing at Slatey Bar,' and he pointed towards the river, which we could plainly hear rushing over a rocky bed.

And all the time those slatey ledges of water kept languidly lifting themselves and suddenly dropping, as if they were alive.

The poet's tomb was disappointing in its unlovely simplicity, its stern, slatey hue.

Here is a stratum of coffee-coloured slatey substance in layers like those of the Wianamatta shale.